Do we collectively really no what we are doing

Why I came across this subject

I was watching a video about John cleese that was or had the subject of “John Cleese's War on Wokeism ”.

During part of it, Cleese stated that the majority of the upper hierarchy of the BBC had made a decision to stop the Monty Python series after the first few episodes. Cleese pointed out that these people at the BBC did not not know what they were doing. The audience laughed. Cleese pointed out, the more important thing was that the BBC hierarchy did not know, that they did not know what they were doing.

Applies to the Entire World

In the much bigger picture of the entire world considering that there is no agreement as to what the meaning of life is or for that matter if life has meaning, it's reasonably logical that the most of the people of the world, don't know what they are doing, and by conclusion not realise they don't know what they are doing.

Leave the bigger decisions to someone else

What I'm talking about here are the bigger things. Not the simple things in life, like getting out of bed making something, deciding what to eat and the like. I'm talking about the medium complex things, Like bying a house, deciding on education or getting a job, to the more complex things such as the decisions governments make.

But taking the premise that most people don't know what they are doing, the same applies to the upper echelon of decision making. Whether it be in corporate or government.

It will be a very brave person that will be able to stand up and say they knew exactly what they were doing all the time. All humans have failings. One of which is that we don't know what we don't know. One of the things that we don't know is that we don't no what we are doing.

Relying on other people to make decisions for us, as happens in most political systems, does not mean that you're leaving the decisions to some person that knows what they're doing.

A famous Quote

“The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.” — Albert Einstein (1879-1955)